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Book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig  1914 1919   Being Selections from the Private Diary and Correspondence of Field Marshal the Earl Haig of Benarsyde

Download or read book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914 1919 Being Selections from the Private Diary and Correspondence of Field Marshal the Earl Haig of Benarsyde written by Douglas Haig and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914 1919

Download or read book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914 1919 written by Douglas Haig and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1814 1919

Download or read book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1814 1919 written by Earl Douglas Haig Haig and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig  1914 1919  Being Selections from the Private Diary and Correspondence of Field Marshall the Earl Haig OfBemersyde

Download or read book The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914 1919 Being Selections from the Private Diary and Correspondence of Field Marshall the Earl Haig OfBemersyde written by Douglas Haig HAIG (1st Earl.) and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of Sir Douglas Haig to His Sister Henrietta  January 1900 Through September 1902

Download or read book Letters of Sir Douglas Haig to His Sister Henrietta January 1900 Through September 1902 written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and Government correspondence and papers concerning Africa, colonial policy, the slave trade, the police force in Africa, trade and 'civilising influence'. Organisation and administration of the African Lakes Company Ltd and other business interests in Africa are discussed, As well as competition between Great Britain and Portugal in Africa, the Imperial British East African Company and the Royal African Company.

Book A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900 1964

Download or read book A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900 1964 written by Cameron Hazlehurst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964 is the revised and expanded edition of a volume first published by The Royal Historical Society in 1974. Its aim is to provide up-to-date information on the papers of 323 ministers in the first edition and include all Cabinet ministers (or those who held positions included in a Cabinet) until the resignation of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister in 1964. Thus the scope of this edition has increased from the 323 ministers in the first Guide to 384, and therefore incorporates those who held relevant positions in the Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Home governments. Information is provided on 60 'new' ministers and the previously omitted Lord Stanley. This Guide therefore is a major research tool and a source of information on personal papers, often in private hands, of people who played major roles in twentieth-century political life.

Book The Preparatory Prologue  Douglas Haig

Download or read book The Preparatory Prologue Douglas Haig written by Douglas Scott and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young officer in the prestigious 21st Lancers (motto 'Death or Glory') Douglas Haig played a leading role in Kitchener's bold expedition which ended in the defeat of the Khalifa of Sudan at Omdurman. He described the action, as he did the whole campaign, vividly in words and diagrams which survived virtually untouched at the family home Bemersyde in the Borders. These letters and diaries allow the reader to trace Haig's career and developing character. What they reveal may well surprise his critics. Field Marshal Lord Haig will remain a hugely controversial figure due to his pre-eminent role during The Great War. He was a hugely popular public figure in the post WW1 years and revered by those who served under him. His death in 1928 was a major occasion for mourning. Only later was he heavily criticised for the slaughter of the trenches.

Book Sources in British Political History  1900 1951

Download or read book Sources in British Political History 1900 1951 written by C. Cook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1970 to 1977 a major project to uncover source material for students of contemporary British history and politics was undertaken at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Fiananced by the Social Science Research Council, and under the direction of Dr Chris Cook, this project has attempted a unique and systematic operation to locate, and then to make readily available, those archives that provide the indispensable source material for the contemporary historian. This volume (the fifth in the series) provides a guide to the papers of propagandists who were influential in British public life. Included in this volume are the papers of such persons as newspaper editors, leading economists, social reformers, socialist thinkers, trade unionists, industrialists and a variety of theologians and philanthropists. In all, this volume not only completes the findings of the project but opens up the archive sources of a hitherto neglected area of research into contemporary social and political history.

Book Sources in British Political History 1900 1951

Download or read book Sources in British Political History 1900 1951 written by P. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-04-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haig

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Bond
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2009-04-20
  • ISBN : 1783409207
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Haig written by Brian Bond and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Marshal Earl Haig's reputation continues to arouse as much interest and controversy as ever. This volume represents the collaboration of two leading historical societies, The British Commission for Military History and The Douglas Haig Fellowship. Leading historians have produced a comprehensive and fascinating study of the most significant and frequently debated aspects of Haig's momentous career.

Book A History of the British Cavalry  1899   1913 Volume 4

Download or read book A History of the British Cavalry 1899 1913 Volume 4 written by The Marquess of Anglesey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventh, and second last, volume in t his historical work, Lord Anglesey shows how superior the Br itish cavalry was compared to those of the French and German s. He concentrates on the first five months of the War. '

Book Sword and Baton Volume 1  1900 to 1939

Download or read book Sword and Baton Volume 1 1900 to 1939 written by Justin Chadwick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sword and Baton is a collection of 86 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. This is the first of two volumes, and its scope is broad, including chaplains-general, surgeons-general and British Army officers who served with the AIF or the permanent forces. Author Justin Chadwick portrayal of these officers careers provides a lens through which he examines trends such as the development of military skills which ensured that, by the commencement of hostilities in 1914, Australia boasted a pool of well-trained, albeit inexperienced officers. The effects of command under pressure of war and the enormous physical impact of combat are likewise portrayed in these comprehensive biographies. By the end of hostilities Australian officers had garnered immense experience and were among the best in the Allied forces. Ironically, this hard-won skill base was to be all but lost in the interwar period. Sword and Baton offers its readers more than a series of biographies. Rather, it describes a crucial period in Australian military history through the lives of the extraordinary men at its head.

Book A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to Africa  British Isles  excluding London

Download or read book A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to Africa British Isles excluding London written by James Douglas Pearson and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work lists and describes manuscripts - in African and Western languages - relating to Africa south of the Sahara held in public and private collections in the British Isles. Arrangement of entries is first by country, and within each country alphabetical by town and name of repository.

Book Charles E  Callwell and the British Way in Warfare

Download or read book Charles E Callwell and the British Way in Warfare written by Daniel Whittingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell.

Book Haig s Generals

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Frederick William Beckett
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 1844151697
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Haig s Generals written by Ian Frederick William Beckett and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "British generals of the First World War have ... played key roles in a complex, painful process, but their contribution has been neglected and often they have been overshadowed by the attention paid to Douglas Haig, their commander in chief. [This book] throws the spotlight onto these individuals, assesses their careers and characters, looks critically at their performance in command and examines their relationship with their subordinates and with Haig, himself"--Jacket.

Book Victory on the Western Front

Download or read book Victory on the Western Front written by Michael Senior and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said ‘Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in attack than in this unbroken offensive’. The scale, speed and success of this offensive have provided historians with fertile ground for interpretation and debate. How did the British Expeditionary Force, having endured the bitter disappointments and heavy losses at Aubers Ridge, Loos, the Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai and during the German spring offensives of 1918 turn the tide of the war and comprehensively defeat the enemy in the field? This is the fascinating question that Michael Senior tackles in this lucid and thought-provoking study. He considers the reasons for the stunning British victories and examines the factors that underpinned the eventual success of the BEF. In particular he shows how tactical and technical developments evolved during the course of the war and merged in a way that gave the British a decisive advantage during the final months of the fighting. Innovations in guns and gunnery, in shells, aircraft and tanks, and a massive increase in industrial output, played key parts, as did the continuous process of adaptation, experimentation and invention that went on throughout the war years. The result was an army that could take advantage of the unprecedented opportunity presented by the failure of the German spring offensive of 1918. Michael Senior provides a challenging and controversial analysis of the underlying reasons for the success of the BEF. It is essential reading for anyone who is keen to learn about the extraordinary development of the British army throughout the war – and to understand why, and how, the Germans were beaten.